dementia
LONG-TERM BRAIN DISORDER CAUSING PERSONALITY CHANGES AND IMPAIRED MEMORY, REASONING, AND SOCIAL FUNCTION
Senility; Senile Dementia; Demented; Senile dementia; Dementing; Severe dementia; Dementias; Caducity; Severe Dementia; Cortical dementia; Pain in Persons with Dementia; User:Painaware/pain and dementia; User:Painaware/Pain in PErsons with Dementia; User:Painaware/Pain in Persons with Dementia; Pain and dementia; Antidementia; Antidementia drug; Cognitive decline; Antidementia drugs; Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia; Dementia research; Causes of dementia; Signs and symptoms of dementia; Senile; Reversible causes of dementia; Treatment of dementia; Epidemiology of dementia; Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia; Dementia Screening Test; Dementia screening test; Mild behavioral impairment; Mixed dementia; Risk factors for dementia; Dementia-related apathy; Dementia related apathy
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¦ noun Medicine a chronic or persistent mental disorder marked by memory failures, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
Origin
C18: from L., from demens, dement- 'out of one's mind'.